Comments on: Cold Cut’s mystery future http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Blog@Newsarama » Cold Cut closed, to re-open with new owners http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-1603798 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:50:46 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-1603798 [...] Heidi MacDonald offers a little context and commentary. [...] […] Heidi MacDonald offers a little context and commentary. […]

]]> by: STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: February 1st, 2008 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-785214 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:24:59 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-785214 [...] Cold Cut’s mystery future from THE BEAT [...] […] Cold Cut’s mystery future from THE BEAT […]

]]> by: Jamie Coville http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-784662 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:51:58 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-784662 Whats got me curious is the location. Shipping from Illinois is 2 days at most (inside the continental US) is it not? Moving it there makes it much more accessible to the entire DM. Whats got me curious is the location. Shipping from Illinois is 2 days at most (inside the continental US) is it not? Moving it there makes it much more accessible to the entire DM.

]]> by: M. High http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-781047 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:27:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-781047 Unfortunately I will have to remain quite vague, since it is not really my place to make any major announcements -- I'll leave that up to the new owners instead. The best that I can say right now is pretty much what we have on our answering machine, and recent email replies -- which is that our California warehouse is closed, and we are in the process of moving the operations to Illinois. In fact, I'm breaking down the last of the gorilla racks today, and the big Yellow Freight truck comes by tomorrow. As for the future -- well, that's up to the new owners, and leave it at that for now. As soon as any announcement is made, it will be made on our website (which is now horribly out of date -- the catalog/shopping portion should remain about the same, but the rest of the site will probably be completely redesigned from top to bottom), and in the official Cold Cut Livejournal community (not my personal journal, which is more for my own personal ruminations and non-business stuff, really). That's all for now -- stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for developments. Unfortunately I will have to remain quite vague, since it is not really my place to make any major announcements — I’ll leave that up to the new owners instead. The best that I can say right now is pretty much what we have on our answering machine, and recent email replies — which is that our California warehouse is closed, and we are in the process of moving the operations to Illinois. In fact, I’m breaking down the last of the gorilla racks today, and the big Yellow Freight truck comes by tomorrow.

As for the future — well, that’s up to the new owners, and leave it at that for now. As soon as any announcement is made, it will be made on our website (which is now horribly out of date — the catalog/shopping portion should remain about the same, but the rest of the site will probably be completely redesigned from top to bottom), and in the official Cold Cut Livejournal community (not my personal journal, which is more for my own personal ruminations and non-business stuff, really).

That’s all for now — stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for developments.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780938 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:06:45 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780938 "Apparently, there is money in comics. Just not that much to go around." Geppi owns more then just Diamond. He has his fingers in many pies. “Apparently, there is money in comics. Just not that much to go around.”

Geppi owns more then just Diamond. He has his fingers in many pies.

]]> by: Frank Santoro http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780883 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:51:06 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780883 RE: Diamond I saw a great episode of "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS. They were in Baltimore and stopped by the Geppi Museum. Fascinating stuff. Apparently, there is money in comics. Just not that much to go around. RE: Diamond
I saw a great episode of “Antiques Roadshow” on PBS. They were in Baltimore and stopped by the Geppi Museum. Fascinating stuff. Apparently, there is money in comics. Just not that much to go around.

]]> by: Joe Williams http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780594 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:42:33 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780594 Eric, Last Gasp is one of the those other distributors. Eric, Last Gasp is one of the those other distributors.

]]> by: Joe Williams http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780562 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:34:34 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780562 So, no one has a clue who the buyer is? One would guess that it would be it would be someone already established in book/magazine distribution looking to add to that business. I did some quick searching and came up with this indy book distributor in Illinois who might be a good fit... http://www.ipgbook.com Obviously, this is just idle speculation on my part, but would any comics journalists out there care to make a call or send an email? So, no one has a clue who the buyer is? One would guess that it would be it would be someone already established in book/magazine distribution looking to add to that business. I did some quick searching and came up with this indy book distributor in Illinois who might be a good fit… http://www.ipgbook.com
Obviously, this is just idle speculation on my part, but would any comics journalists out there care to make a call or send an email?

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780426 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:07:06 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780426 Now, wouldn't that me something if the new owners of Cold Cut were able to get Marvel and DC to brake their exclusive contracts with Diamond? Who knows what it would bring after what... 15 years of stores only having one place to go for there core books? It's so odd. What other industry works like this? Competition is good for business and I see no reason for anyone to fear it; even Diamond. Of course, not that I dare to believe that any of this would happen. All I have to say after that is, thank God they run their business fairly well, or new distributors could only rise from the ashes of a decimated industry, to start it again from scratch. Think of a small wild flower, sprouting from the chard remains of thousands of comic book stores, and publishers great and small. But, that's getting far to poetic for this time of day. Now, wouldn’t that me something if the new owners of Cold Cut were able to get Marvel and DC to brake their exclusive contracts with Diamond? Who knows what it would bring after what… 15 years of stores only having one place to go for there core books? It’s so odd. What other industry works like this? Competition is good for business and I see no reason for anyone to fear it; even Diamond. Of course, not that I dare to believe that any of this would happen. All I have to say after that is, thank God they run their business fairly well, or new distributors could only rise from the ashes of a decimated industry, to start it again from scratch. Think of a small wild flower, sprouting from the chard remains of thousands of comic book stores, and publishers great and small. But, that’s getting far to poetic for this time of day.

]]> by: Eric Adams http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780407 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:02:11 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/31/cold-cuts-mystery-future/#comment-780407 > Cold Cut is one of the very few surviving comics distributors that isn’t Diamond. Who are the others I'm not aware of? > Cold Cut is one of the very few surviving comics distributors that isn’t Diamond.

Who are the others I’m not aware of?

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